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Abstract

A situation awareness display device for providing a graphical display of e relative position of remote units moving along with and in proximity to the local unit utilizing the device. The device is comprised of a tracking means for determining the instantaneous position of the local unit, a communications means for communicating that local position information to cooperating remote units over an external communication link, and receiving the position information of those remote unit over that same external link, a navigation means for deriving course following information, direction and velocity of said display device from said local unit position information, a main processing means for controlling the flow of information within said device and for deriving the relative position of the remote units with respect to the local unit from their respective position information, and a display means for retrieving and graphically displaying said stored relative position information in a uniquely configured display format showing the relative positions of the remote units from the perspective of the local unit.

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